Suzanne Ross who writes this SharePoint blog manages to cover the basics of SharePoint in a very strightforward and easy to understand way. I will definitely be pointing some of our users towards her blog posts in the future!

I have just downloaded and installed the SharePoint Learning Kit from Microsoft. This is a MOSS 2007 feature that allows trainers to create and manage online training.

As it is wrapped up as a feature it is very easy to install although you may have to alter the deploysolution.cmd file if your central admin web application isn't found at http://localhost.

Once installed and deployed the kit is fairly simple to use. It allows trainers to upload SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and Class Server content to a document library and then assign these training modules to a user.

The user can complete the module and submit it to get feedback from the trainer. As someone who has to train people on SharePoint from time to time I can see this being an extremely useful tool to track who has been assigned which modules and what progress they have made.

The downside of this query is that you are also going to get your service accounts and any disabled accounts imported as well. This creates a lot of unnecessary clutter in people searches and greatly reduces the effectiveness of the people search scope.

Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 - Simply captures sites that are deleted by end users and backs them up to disk using the event model. You have a recycle bin, but this is basically a site recycle bin (available only to administrators). (Works with WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007)

As a SharePoint developer you are going to be frequently using the STSADM tool deploying solutions, features and all number of other development related activities.

Rather than having to change the directory you are using every time you open up a command prompt there is a much simpler solution that will save you a few seconds everytime you come to use STSADM. We are going to add the path to the bin folder containing STSADM to the Path system variable. This will mean that you can just open up a command prompt type STSADM.exe add your parameters and hit enter - no need to change the directory path first!

To do this go to Control Panel and then System and select the Advanced tab.

Click "Environment Variables"

Under "System Variables" scroll down to "Path"

Select "Path" and click "Edit"

Add "%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\Bin" to the list of paths and make sure it is seperated with a ';'

Click OK three times to close all the windows

Restart your system

Go to Start - Run and type CMD

Type STSADM.exe in the command prompt and you will get the following screen showing that STSADM.exe can now be run without changing the directory path: